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Monday, June 10, 2013

Mystery Monday: Searching for Mary Ann, part 3

Mystery Monday is a daily prompt at Geneabloggers
encouraging bloggers to share mystery ancestors or mystery records – anything
which is currently unsolved. With any
luck fellow genealogy bloggers will lend their eyes to what has been found so
far and possibly help solve the mystery.

Armentrout researchers have identified seven main
branches, representing each of the children who arrived in Pennsylvania aboard
the Samuel in 1739 along with their
widowed mother Anna Elizabeth Ermentraudt.

Potential fathers for Mary Ann are in bold.

Johannes Ermentraudt

Johannes was apparently the oldest of the seven
Ermentraudt children. He was born about
1717 in Palatinate (south-western region of Germany along the Rhine) and died
about 1753 in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia. While in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he married
Anna Elizabeth Hedderich in 1742. The
couple lived with her father Adam Hedderich and raised three children: Anna Marharet (1745 - ), Johannes Emerich(1747 – 1831), and Johan Heinrich (1749 – 1827).
It was Johannes and his father-in-law who first decided to investigate
the rumors of good land in Virginia and who convinced others in the family to
sell their Pennsylvania farms and move south.

Anna Elizabeth
Ermentraudt

Anna Elizabeth was the only daughter of the widow Anna
Elizabeth Ermentraudt. She was born in
Palatinate about 1718. She married her cousin Johan Frederick Hain, son of
George and Veronica Hain with whom the Ermentraudts lived upon arrival in
Pennsylvania. They moved to Rockingham
County, Virginia where they raised two sons, Johannes (1747 - ) and Johan
Frederick (1749-1811).

Johan Phillip
Ermentraudt

Johan Phillip was born about 1720 in Palatinate and died
about 1790 in Rockingham County, Virginia.
He was married to Elizabeth Reith (Reisch, Rish, Rush) of
Pennsylvania. He purchased around 700
acres of land in Virginia over the years, and probably lived near his brothers
Georg and Friederich who purchased land from the same tract on the same day. Phillip and his brother Stophel (Christopher)
participated in the French and Indian War.
He and Elizabeth raised three children:
Phillip Jr. (1747 – 1836), Peter (1751 – 1824), and Heinrich (1755 –
1806). His mother lived with him after the Ermentraudts settled in Virginia,
and he served as executor of her estate.
Apparently Phillip did quite well financially as he gave each of his
sons a farm.

The Peaked Mountain Church in McGaheysville, Virginia
where the Armentrouts were active and devoted members.
This building has been torn down and replaced.Photo scanned from Armentrout Family Historyby Russell S. Armentrout
For a clearer photo, click HERE.

Johan
Friederich Ermentraudt

Johan Friederich was born around 1722 or 23 in
Palatinate, arrived in Pennsylvania with his mother and siblings about 1739,
joined the Ermentraudt migration to Virginia around 1754 (based on a deed), and
died in Rockingham County in 1789 or 90.
He married Maria Catrina Hedrick in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The two raised at least eight children: Anna (1747 - ), George (1750 - ), John (1751 - ), Christopher (1761 - ),
Charles (1763 – 1836), Augustine (1765 - ), Frederick (1767 – 1837), and
Catherine (1769 - ). Although no record
exists, it is assumed Friederich served in the French and Indian War because
all able-bodied men were required to do so.
He was over-age to be drafted during the Revolution, but he was
nevertheless a patriot who provided supplies and services to the Continental
Army.

Christopher (Stophel)
Ermentraudt

Christopher was born about 1724 in Palatinate. He married Elizabeth Schmel in
Pennsylvania. They had two
children: Barbara and Christopher Jr. (1754
– 1825). Apparently Elizabeth died
shortly after the birth of the second child because Christopher then joined his
family that had already migrated to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. It is possible that Elizabeth’s parents
raised the two children, but there is also some indication that they lived with
Christopher’s sister Anna Elizabeth Hain in Virginia. Soon after arriving in Virginia, Christopher
joined the Militia and fought in the French and Indian Wars. In 1760 he married a second time, to Susannah
Gallet Power (or Bower), a widow. He was
captured by Indians in 1762 and spent six years in captivity before escaping
and returning home. Shortly afterwards he
sold his land in Rockingham County and in 1771 moved his family to Hardy
County, which today is in West Virginia, where he purchased 226 acres. While Christopher was too old for service in
the Revolution, he paid for supplies for the Continental Army. He and Susannah raised six children:
Elizabeth (1761 – 1800), Anna Maria (1762 – 1850), Henry (1763 – 1833), Johannes (1770 – 1810), Susanna (1772 –
1842), Christopher (1775 – 1857). He
remained in Hardy County the rest of his life and died in 1805.

Heinrich
Ermentraudt

Heinrich was born about 1726 in Palatinate. He married Mary Magdalena Bauer in Augusta
County, Virginia (Rockingham County after 1778) in 1759. Like his brothers, he served in the Militia
during the French and Indian Wars and provided supplies to the Continental Army
during the American Revolution. He was a
large land owner with roughly 1000 acres.
He must have died rather suddenly at age 56 in 1782 because he left no
will. He and Mary Magdalena had eight
children: George (1760 – 1805),
Elizabeth (1763 - ), Mary Magdalena (1767 – 1858), Mary (1769 – 1861), Margaret
(1772 - ), Philip (1776 – 1859), Henry (1779 – 1846), and Barbara (1781 - ).

Johan Georg
Ermentraudt

Georg was the youngest of the Ermantraudts, born about
1729 in Palatinate. He married Barbara
Friedtel in 1759 in Augusta County, now Rockingham County, Virginia. He amassed a large amount of land, roughly
850 acres. As did his brothers, he
joined the Militia and fought in the French and Indian Wars, which earned him a
military warrant of 50 acres. He also
served in the Militia during the American Revolution and was present with his
company at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. He and Barbara had
at least four children but possibly six:
George (1761 – 1787), Mary M (1763 - ), Johan Frederick (1764 – 1855), and Catherine B (1769 - ). Georg died after 1805.

Next time I will eliminate the ones who could not be Mary
Ann’s father.

I didn't recognize the name Palatinate so I looked it up, the Dutch name is the Palts (German: Pfalz). It isn't that far away for the Netherlands. Do you know in which town they lived? According to Wikipedia a lot of very destructive religious wars have been fought over there, with cities burned to the ground several times. So I can understand their need for emigration.

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